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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

A Very Vegan Christmas: Milanesa

My favorite home video of all-time involves me riding my grandparents’ dog while eating a giant milanesa. Somehow they hadn’t thought that it might be a poor choice to let a 2 year old on top of a dog twice his size with a highly desirable chunk of meat. Luckily, this dog was my personal protector, and she subverted her animalistic desires to allow me safe passage from the den to the backyard.

Some brilliant individual once thought "How could I possibly make steak better? I know I'll fry it!." And before his arteries finished clogging, he shared his genius with the world. Milanesa is the one thing I always request when I go home, and whenever I’m at a Hispanic restaurant I immediately scour the menu for it. As a result, I was most intrigued when my sister told me she had created a vegan milanesa. The results were beyond anything I could have hoped for.

This is by far the most delectable I have ever had the gardein beef tips. By themselves in this dish they are a flawless meat substitute that embraces the fried bread crumb casing to make something that my grandparents’ dog would’ve been a fool to not fight me for, but with the dipping sauce they transcend anything my ancestors could’ve hoped to craft. This is definitely one dish I can't wait to make again to share the vegany goodness with my friends.

One of my goals in life is to plunge food violently into dipping sauce like in commercials. I imagine this results in getting sauce all over the place and having everyone else at the table hate you.

There's plenty more excitement to come from a Very Vegan Christmas including Cucidatis, "Oyster" Patties, Beignets, Frittatas, Dog Treats, and the world's most incredible Holiday Punch. It's a mad dash of posts coming to end the year!